Mafia Summer

Mafia Summer
Author: E. Duke Vincent
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2008-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1596919272

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One a Sicilian Hell's Kitchen gang leader, the other a sickly but brilliant Orthodox Jewish boy who lives next door, Vinny Vesta and Sidney Butcher meet on a fire escape during the blistering New York City summer of 1950. Their friendship develops over the course of a summer that will change Vinny's fortunes forever, at a cost he could never have imagined. Based on a true story, Mafia Summer brilliantly captures a pivotal moment in Mafia history and in the lives of the teenagers caught up by the Mob. "Influenced more by Billy Bathgate than by The Godfather...Sweet, affectionate, and bloody: a glance backward to a well-spent youth."-Kirkus Reviews "E. Duke Vincent hits the target dead center with this first novel set on the bloody streets of Hell's Kitchen. A mini-epic, complete with a full-scale crime war, Mafia Summer remains a detailed tale of friendship and of the best kind of loyalty. A masterful performance."-Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Sleepers and Paradise City "One of the best books on the mafia I have ever read. Right up there with The Godfather."-New York Times bestselling author Jack Higgins

Jewish Summer Camp Mafia

Jewish Summer Camp Mafia
Author: Malina Saval
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-12-08
Genre: Interfaith dating
ISBN: 9780615685076

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17-year-old Mushky Mendelssohn has big plans for the summer before her senior year of high school: study for the SATs, pad her college résumé with an extra English literature class, and visit her BGF (Best Guy Friend) Matthew Berkowitz out in sunny California. But when Barrie, Mushky's boy-crazy ABFF (Almost Best Friend Forever) from home, talks her into taking a job as a counselor at Camp Kippewanscot, a reform Jewish sleep-away summer camp in the Poconos with an optional kosher meal plan and cups of watered-down Manischewitz - "We're practically guaranteed to meet a hot Jewish guy," Barrie tells her - Mushky reluctantly agrees. When at the last second Barrie decides to bail and spend the summer with her newly divorced dad at a beach resort in Thailand, Mushky finds herself going to camp alone. Stuck in the middle of mosquito-infested rural Pennsylvania, at a camp where she knows absolutely no one, Mushky searches fruitlessly for the hot Jewish guy that Barrie promised. Which is when she meets Devin McGillicudy, aka "Dev," a fellow counselor who's hot, blonde, and 20-years-old. And definitely not Jewish.

The Cold Summer

The Cold Summer
Author: Gianrico Carofiglio
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1912242044

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The summer of 1992 had been exceptionally cold in southern Italy. But that’s not the reason why it is still remembered. On May 23, 1992, a roadside explosion killed the Palermo judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three police officers. A few weeks later judge Paolo Borsellino and five police officers were killed in the center of Palermo. These anti-mafia judges became heroes but the violence spread to the region of Bari in Puglia, where we meet a new, memorable character, Maresciallo Pietro Fenoglio, an officer of the Italian Carabinieri. Fenoglio, recently abandoned by his wife, must simultaneously deal with his personal crisis and the new gang wars raging around Bari. The police are stymied until a gang member, accused of killing a child, decides to collaborate, revealing the inner workings and the rules governing organised crime in the area. The story is narrated through the actual testimony of the informant, a trope reminiscent of verbatim theatre which Carofiglio, an ex-anti-mafia judge himself, uses to great effect. The gangs are stopped but the mystery of the boy’s murder must still be solved, leading Fenoglio into a world of deep moral ambiguity, where the prosecutors are hard to distinguish from the prosecuted.

That Summer in Sicily

That Summer in Sicily
Author: Marlena de Blasi
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008-08-05
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0345513339

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “At villa Donnafugata, long ago is never very far away,” writes bestselling author Marlena de Blasi of the magnificent if somewhat ruined castle in the mountains of Sicily that she finds, accidentally, one summer while traveling with her husband, Fernando. There de Blasi is befriended by Tosca, the patroness of the villa, an elegant and beautiful woman-of-a-certain-age who recounts her lifelong love story with the last prince of Sicily descended from the French nobles of Anjou. Sicily is a land of contrasts: grandeur and poverty, beauty and sufferance, illusion and candor. In a luminous and tantalizing voice, That Summer in Sicily re-creates Tosca’s life, from her impoverished childhood to her fairy-tale adoption and initiation into the glittering life of the prince’s palace, to the dawning and recognition of mutual love. But when Prince Leo attempts to better the lives of his peasants, his defiance of the local Mafia’s grim will to maintain the historical imbalance between the haves and the have-nots costs him dearly. The present-day narrative finds Tosca sharing her considerable inherited wealth with a harmonious society composed of many of the women–now widowed–who once worked the prince’s land alongside their husbands. How the Sicilian widows go about their tasks, care for one another, and celebrate the rituals of a humble, well-lived life is the heart of this book. Showcasing the same writerly gifts that made bestsellers of A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany, That Summer in Sicily, and de Blasi’ s marvelous storytelling, remind us that in order to live a rich life, one must embrace both life’s sorrow and its beauty. Here is an epic drama that takes readers from Sicily’s remote mountains to chaotic post-war Palermo, from the intricacies of forbidden love to the havoc wreaked by Sicily’s eternally bewildering culture.

Mafia's Final Play (Clean)

Mafia's Final Play (Clean)
Author: Summer Cooper
Publisher: Lovy Books Ltd
Total Pages: 210
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Mafia's Final Play (Clean)

Mafia's Final Play: A Small Town Mafia Contemporary Romance

Mafia's Final Play: A Small Town Mafia Contemporary Romance
Author: Summer Cooper
Publisher: Hot Summer and Sexy Romance
Total Pages: 254
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Indulge in this sexy mafia romance series by USA Today Bestselling steamy contemporary billionaire romance author Summer Cooper. His life for hers. Who would want to harm a Mafia boss’s wife? A lot of people… but who would dare? When the sexy mafia married Marie, he thought all of her suffering would be over. He thought that would protect her. He thought he could protect her. But the mafia man was wrong. Maybe someone hates her that much, they want her dead? Or maybe someone’s trying to kill her to get to him? Either way, he’s going to get to the bottom of it. He’ll make sure she’s safe if it’s the last thing he’ll do. He won’t let history repeat itself. This is an adult only steamy contemporary romance, appealing to readers who love sexy mafia romance, smokin' hot small town romance, and sizzling enemies to lovers romances. This book is sizzling hot book (and not suitable for prudish readers), perfect for readers who love Luna Mason, Eva Winners, Michelle Heard, K.Bromberg and Lucy Darling.

Beyond the Mafia

Beyond the Mafia
Author: Sue Mahan
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998-06-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761913597

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Presents a comparative perspective of 'non traditional' organized crime in the United States and Latin America - beyond the Mafia.

Snow White Is A Gangster (Montello High: School of Gangsters 2)

Snow White Is A Gangster (Montello High: School of Gangsters 2)
Author: SIELALSTREIM
Publisher: Summit Publishing Company Inc.
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2023-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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After witnessing how Summer Leondale fought the Freniere clan for Van, Henrietta Arturia decides to avenge the forlorn fate of her love. Not only does she want vengeance, she also wants to save her flame Sebastian Freniere from misery after the tragedy. Sa mapanganib na misyong ito, Henrietta must forsake not only her allegiance to the Freniere Mafia as a reaper, but also stake her very life and the lives intertwined with her own. Her mission demands more than courage; it demands sacrifice. For vengeance and love, the ice princess is willing to risk it all, even her life as a Mafia reaper.

Ultimate Sacrifice

Ultimate Sacrifice
Author: Lamar Waldron
Publisher: Constable
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2013-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472113330

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Drawing on seventeen years of research, thousands of recently declassified files, and dozens of interviews, Ultimate Sacrifice re-creates and, in many ways, rewrites the crucial period of our history leading up to November 22 1923. In the process, this groundbreaking account provides the missing pieces to the greatest tragic puzzle of post-war America: the true circumstances behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. · Ultimate Sacrifice details a previously unknown “Plan for a Coup in Cuba” authorized by President John Kennedy, run by Attorney General Robert Kennedy and set for December 1, 1963. · The Kennedy plan, unique and different from ant previously disclosed operation, was – as detailed in a Joint Chiefs of Staff memo – to have included a “palace coup”, a provisional Cuban government and, if necessary, a “full-scale invasion” by “invited” US military forces. · The CIA’s code name for their part of the operation, AMWORLD, has never previously surfaced in any government investigation, nor in any book or article, making it one of the most covert operations in United States history. · Ultimate Sacrifice will detail how the Kennedy plan was penetrated by three mafia godfathers – Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, and Johnny Roselli – being vigorously pursued by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, along with a dozen of their associates, six of whom were also working on the Coup plan. · The crime bosses then used parts of the Coup Plan/AMWORLD to arrange JFK’s assassination in a way that would prevent a truly thorough government investigation in order to protect the Coup Plan, its participants, and national security. · By using the secrecy surrounding the Plan, the mob bosses would target JFK not only in Dallas but in two earlier attempts, one in Chicago on November 1 and them one in Tampa on November 18, which Ultimate Sacrifice reveals for the first time in any book. · Ultimate Sacrifice has finally pieced together the whole story by building on the work of the seven governmental committees that have investigated aspects of the assassination, on the work of former government investigators, and on the four million documents that were declassified in the 1990s, in addition to exclusive interviews with dozens of witnesses and participants including Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, and the Kennedys’ closest Cuban exile aide, Harry “Ruiz” Williams.

Mafia only kills in summer

Mafia only kills in summer
Author:
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Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN:

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Set in 1979, the story of Mafia Only Kills In Summer unfolds through the eyes of one young boy, Salvatore, and his family, the Giammarresi's. Major historical events, investigations, crimes and politics intertwine with their normal daily life... an apparent normality that is in fact back dropped by a continuing and intrusive conflict.